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Topic: Whitefriars Apple - probably (Read 1313 times)

I bought this controlled bubble paperweight recently. In fact I almost didn't buy it, but given my track record with paperweights, I went back to the shop and bought it just to be on the safe side! :lol:

I put it on the Whitefriars.com site, and Patrick feels it is Whitefriars...well...99.9% certain anyway - thanks Patrick for your help. I'd still like to run it past Ray Annenburg, hopefully I'll catch up with him at a fair sometime.

Sklounion

My reason for asking, is that I have seen these elsewhere. Peter's comment is a fair observation, that very accurate controlled bubbled techniques can indicate a particular company.

I am not saying for one moment that this is categorically not WF, but another serious candidate must be Harrachov.

Pattern ranges 15/2760 and 15/2764 were produced in blue and amber versions, but may well have appeared in other colours. Both examples shown on p84 of "275 Let Harrachovske Sklarny" (Crystalex, Novy Bor, 1987) are clear cased, but I have seen uncased examples.

Harrachov were a major manufacturer of controlled bubble glass, with designs by Metelak, from @1961, and much of the bud glass, supplied to importers such as Jaffe Rose, would have been made by Harrachov.

Marcus, would you know if the Harrachov apple paperweights have a circular, ground, polished pontil mark? Many glass items are confused with Whitefriars due to that generally distinguishing mark, but I feel it's quite unusual on a paperweight...what do you think?

The colour is good on my apple...it seems a dead match for WF Sapphire in the light, then in reduced lighting conditions it seems to glow with a darker blue shade.